The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI

The useful part

The internet's founders governed a technology nobody agreed on, without kings, presidents, or voting. One after another, the people building the most powerful AI in the world have asked to be regulated. Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for the industry to slow down and submit to outside oversight.

How it works

• The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how.
• Kevin Roose put it bluntly, "The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them, because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms." Congress, in response,...
• His reasoning, that the government cannot really act because the industry itself cannot agree on what the rules shoul...

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Details worth keeping

The people who built the internet would find that laughable.